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Vouloumanos, Athena – Cognition, 2008
A language learner trying to acquire a new word must often sift through many potential relations between particular words and their possible meanings. In principle, statistical information about the distribution of those mappings could serve as one important source of data, but little is known about whether learners can in fact track multiple…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Word Recognition, Cognitive Mapping, Bayesian Statistics
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Dunabeitia, Jon Andoni; Aviles, Alberto; Afonso, Olivia; Scheepers, Christoph; Carreiras, Manuel – Cognition, 2009
In the present visual-world experiment, participants were presented with visual displays that included a target item that was a semantic associate of an abstract or a concrete word. This manipulation allowed us to test a basic prediction derived from the qualitatively different representational framework that supports the view of different…
Descriptors: Semantics, Vocabulary Development, Semiotics, Models
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You, Wenping; Chen, Baoguo; Dunlap, Susan – Cognition, 2009
Frequency trajectory is a better measure to investigate age-limited learning effects than age of acquisition (AoA) ratings (Zevin, J. D., & Seidenberg, M. S. (2002). "Age of acquisition effects in word reading and other tasks." "Journal of Memory and Language, 47"(1), 1-29). The current study uses frequency trajectory as a variable to investigate…
Descriptors: Semantics, Written Language, Character Recognition, Chinese
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Casini, Laurence; Burle, Boris; Nguyen, Noel – Cognition, 2009
Time is essential to speech. The duration of speech segments plays a critical role in the perceptual identification of these segments, and therefore in that of spoken words. Here, using a French word identification task, we show that vowels are perceived as shorter when attention is divided between two tasks, as compared to a single task control…
Descriptors: Vowels, Identification, Auditory Perception, Word Recognition
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Dikker, Suzanne; Rabagliati, Hugh; Pylkkanen, Liina – Cognition, 2009
One of the most intriguing findings on language comprehension is that violations of syntactic predictions can affect event-related potentials as early as 120 ms, in the same time-window as early sensory processing. This effect, the so-called early left-anterior negativity (ELAN), has been argued to reflect word category access and initial…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Sentences, Cues, Syntax
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Yates, Mark – Cognition, 2010
The least supported phoneme refers to the phoneme position within a word with which the fewest phonological neighbors overlap. Recently, it has been argued that the number of neighbors coinciding with the least supported phoneme is a critical determinant of pronunciation latencies. The current research tested this claim by comparing naming…
Descriptors: Phonemes, English (Second Language), Decoding (Reading), Word Recognition
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Siakaluk, Paul D.; Pexman, Penny M.; Aguilera, Laura; Owen, William J.; Sears, Christopher R. – Cognition, 2008
We examined the effects of sensorimotor experience in two visual word recognition tasks. Body-object interaction (BOI) ratings were collected for a large set of words. These ratings assess perceptions of the ease with which a human body can physically interact with a word's referent. A set of high BOI words (e.g., "mask") and a set of low BOI…
Descriptors: Semantics, Systems Approach, Interaction, Word Recognition
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Smith, Linda; Yu, Chen – Cognition, 2008
First word learning should be difficult because any pairing of a word and scene presents the learner with an infinite number of possible referents. Accordingly, theorists of children's rapid word learning have sought constraints on word-referent mappings. These constraints are thought to work by enabling learners to resolve the ambiguity inherent…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Infants, Vocabulary Development, Word Recognition
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Yates, Mark; Friend, John; Ploetz, Danielle M. – Cognition, 2008
Recent research has indicated that phonological neighbors speed processing in a variety of isolated word recognition tasks. Nevertheless, as these tasks do not represent how we normally read, it is not clear if phonological neighborhood has an effect on the reading of sentences for meaning. In the research reported here, we evaluated whether…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Sentences, Phonology, Eye Movements
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Mirman, Daniel; Magnuson, James S.; Estes, Katharine Graf; Dixon, James A. – Cognition, 2008
Many studies have shown that listeners can segment words from running speech based on conditional probabilities of syllable transitions, suggesting that this statistical learning could be a foundational component of language learning. However, few studies have shown a direct link between statistical segmentation and word learning. We examined this…
Descriptors: Syllables, Infants, Probability, Word Recognition
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Magnuson, James S.; Tanenhaus, Michael K.; Aslin, Richard N. – Cognition, 2008
In many domains of cognitive processing there is strong support for bottom-up priority and delayed top-down (contextual) integration. We ask whether this applies to supra-lexical context that could potentially constrain lexical access. Previous findings of early context integration in word recognition have typically used constraints that can be…
Descriptors: Nouns, Word Recognition, Cognitive Processes, Form Classes (Languages)
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Green, Adam E.; Fugelsang, Jonathan A.; Kraemer, David J. M.; Dunbar, Kevin N. – Cognition, 2008
Here, we investigate how activation of mental representations of categories during analogical reasoning influences subsequent cognitive processing. Specifically, we present and test the central predictions of the "Micro-Category" account of analogy. This account emphasizes the role of categories in aligning terms for analogical mapping. In a…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Semantics, Logical Thinking, Semiotics
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Creel, Sarah C.; Aslin, Richard N.; Tanenhaus, Michael K. – Cognition, 2008
Two experiments used the head-mounted eye-tracking methodology to examine the time course of lexical activation in the face of a non-phonemic cue, talker variation. We found that lexical competition was attenuated by consistent talker differences between words that would otherwise be lexical competitors. In Experiment 1, some English cohort…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Cues, Cognitive Processes, Eye Movements
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Singh, Leher – Cognition, 2008
Although infants begin to encode and track novel words in fluent speech by 7.5 months, their ability to recognize words is somewhat limited at this stage. In particular, when the surface form of a word is altered, by changing the gender or affective prosody of the speaker, infants begin to falter at spoken word recognition. Given that natural…
Descriptors: Infants, Word Recognition, Child Development, Speech Communication
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Salverda, Anne Pier; Dahan, Delphine; Tanenhaus, Michael K.; Crosswhite, Katherine; Masharov, Mikhail; McDonough, Joyce – Cognition, 2007
Eye movements were monitored as participants followed spoken instructions to manipulate one of four objects pictured on a computer screen. Target words occurred in utterance-medial (e.g., "Put the cap next to the square") or utterance-final position (e.g., "Now click on the cap"). Displays consisted of the target picture (e.g., a cap), a…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Word Recognition, Language Processing, Phonetics
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